Bogs, muskegs, and fens are the "kidneys of the earth" - landscapes built up over millenia. Worth protecting, and finding ...

During college, I had heard accounts of exotic flora and fauna in this wetland, particularly in the remote central zone dominated by a sphagnum moss-black spruce bog. This unique wetland ...

Canisbay Lake Campground is one of several located in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario. Here are our thoughts from our autumn camping trip. We took our first trip to Algonquin Park this past ...

Black spruce (Picea mariana), also called bog spruce, swamp spruce, and shortleaf black spruce is a wide-ranging, abundant conifer that bounds the northern limit of trees in North America.

A few kilometres past the roots, the road bisects a fairly big bog lined with black spruce covered with willows. This was about as far as I went along this road last winter and I wanted to poke ...

The habitat is a mix of upland deciduous forest, tamarack and black spruce bog, to lowland hardwood forest. The maximum number of hunters who can participate is fifteen. This hunt will be open for ...

Cedar Bog is a fascinating place ... As the climate then was much colder, boreal plants, such as spruce, fir, tamarack and many others, flourished in what would much later become known as Ohio.

As the boreal returned to the north—the black spruce sending its spires up from bogs and its cousin, white spruce, bristling the drier slopes across the Arctic—the forest began to remake its ...

And then Brady's practiced ear detected a subtle flapping in a nearby spruce bog. He slowly led us to the ... The bird was dressed to impress with striking black-and-white plumage accented with ...

around a sun-dappled pond and along a rare black spruce bog. We began on a frosty morning at the south end of 44-acre Breakheart Pond, following Breakheart Trail in a counter-clockwise direction ...

I exclaimed. “I feel like we’re in Maine,” Phil said. Maggie could barely contain her joy as we approached the black spruce bog, normally found much farther north “This is amazing!

You can also find plant species, such as Labrador tea (Rhododendron groenlandicum) and black spruce (Picea mariana).These can only be found both in highly-acidic bogs in lowland settings and in ...